The Viral Takeover: How "Dollar" Was Hijacked Like a Parasitic Virus

 

The Viral Takeover: How "Dollar" Was Hijacked Like a Parasitic Virus

Imagine an ancient, robust organism—one that evolved over centuries, perfectly adapted to its environment. This organism is the economy, and at its core is a vital protein: the dollar, which originally functioned as gold and silver, a real, tangible store of value.

But then, a virus appeared. Not an ordinary one—this was a highly engineered financial pathogen designed to infiltrate the system, alter its genetic code, and replicate itself at the expense of the host. This is the story of how a monetary virus hijacked the world.

Stage 1: The Infection – Introducing the "Currency" Virus

The first step in a viral takeover is finding a way into the host. A virus cannot survive on its own—it needs to mimic a legitimate biological function to gain entry.

For centuries, money had a strong immune system: it was tied to reality. Gold and silver had intrinsic properties that prevented counterfeiting. But the virus found its first vulnerability: the introduction of paper currency.

At first, these paper notes were just innocent carriers—representing real gold or silver, much like a benign virus that coexists with the host. People still thought they were using real money, just in a more convenient form.

But like a virus that alters cell function while remaining undetected, this was the first mutation: currency began replacing real money while still carrying its name—"dollar."

Stage 2: The Hijacking – The Federal Reserve’s Genetic Rewrite

A successful virus doesn’t kill its host immediately; it rewrites the host’s DNA to make copies of itself. This is exactly what happened in 1913 with the creation of the Federal Reserve—a private entity that inserted itself into the economic system like viral RNA embedding itself into a cell’s genome.

The Federal Reserve didn’t destroy money outright—it co-opted the "dollar" gene and rewrote it to serve its own replication. The host (the economy) continued functioning, but now every new dollar was a mutated version—no longer gold, but a Federal Reserve Note, a viral replication of the original.

At this stage, the mutation was subtle. The host still thought it was using real money. But the financial virus had taken hold, slowly replacing the economy’s healthy cells with infected ones.

Stage 3: The Immune Suppression – Destroying the Gold Standard

One of the biggest challenges for a virus is the host’s immune response—its ability to recognize and eliminate foreign invaders. In monetary terms, the immune system was gold convertibility—the ability for people to exchange their paper "dollars" for actual gold.

To complete its takeover, the virus had to disable this immune defense.

• 1933: The U.S. government, acting as the virus’s enforcer, made it illegal for citizens to own gold. This was like a virus attacking white blood cells, preventing the host from fighting back.
• 1971: Nixon severed the dollar’s link to gold internationally, completing the immune suppression. Now, there was no longer any connection to reality—just an economy fully infected by fiat currency.

The original genetic material of money had been completely rewritten. The host (the global economy) was now running entirely on the viral code of debt-based money.

Stage 4: The Viral Explosion – Endless Replication and Host Domination

Once a virus takes control of a cell, it forces it to produce more viral copies, rapidly expanding its reach. This is exactly what happened once the dollar was freed from gold:

• The Federal Reserve could now print unlimited money, much like a virus hijacking cellular machinery to endlessly replicate.
• Governments, businesses, and individuals became dependent on an ever-increasing supply of infected dollars, just like a virus forcing a body to keep producing viral particles.
• Every new "dollar" was now a mutant offspring of the original, furthering the spread of the financial pathogen.

At this stage, the virus had completely overtaken the host. The economy no longer operated on real money, but on an ever-expanding debt virus that required constant replication to survive.

Stage 5: The Global Pandemic – Total System Control

In nature, some viruses remain confined to their original hosts, but others evolve to become pandemics, spreading across entire populations. The fiat money virus did exactly this by infecting the global financial system:

• The Petrodollar System: Just as viruses spread through bodily fluids, the fiat dollar spread through global trade. Oil-producing nations were forced to price oil in dollars, ensuring that every country had to adopt the infected monetary system or be cut off from energy supplies.
• Central Banks Worldwide: Other nations’ central banks adopted the same fiat model, meaning the entire global economy now ran on a mutated form of money.
• Debt Dependence: Every government, business, and person was now forced to use the virus’s money—no one could escape its reach.

By hacking the definition of "dollar," the virus had achieved total system domination.

Stage 6: The Long-Term Symptoms – Inflation, Debt, and Economic Collapse

Like any virus that depletes its host’s resources, the fiat dollar system causes long-term degenerative disease:

• Inflation: As more dollars are created, the value of existing dollars weakens, much like a virus slowly weakening the body over time.
• Debt Slavery: Governments and people can never pay off their debts, as new money must constantly be createdto sustain the illusion of value.
• Economic Instability: Just as a viral infection can cause fever, inflammation, and organ failure, fiat money creates market crashes, wealth inequality, and economic collapse.

How the Infection Can Be Cured

Curing a virus requires two things:

1. Recognizing the disease—understanding that the dollar is no longer real money but an infected, manipulated variable.
2. Restoring the original code—returning to a system where money is tied to real, immutable value, like gold, silver, or other hard assets.

Until then, the world remains trapped in the grip of a parasitic financial virus—one that feeds on the labor of billions while enriching its hidden hosts.